The Making of You is a 76-minute Walk-A-Quest through nineteen works at The Met. Each one holds a piece of the answer. Walk it in the galleries, or walk it from anywhere.
76 minutes. 2.9 miles. 19 works across 2 floors. Begins in The Great Hall.
From a seated Bastet to a road at Auvers-sur-Oise, every stop pairs a masterwork with a single idea about the self you are making. Scroll through the whole walk.
Same nineteen works, same question. Choose where your feet are.
Stand in front of the real thing while the narration tells you where to look. The route runs from The Great Hall through Floor 1, then up to Floor 2.
The quest stands on its own. Every work arrives with its image, its narration and its text, so a quiet half hour at home becomes a walk through five thousand years.
We begin with the raised glove. A woman in a dark wrap touches the brim of her hat, and the tall mirror beside her gives back only part of the view.From stop 18, At the Milliner's, Edgar Degas
We stand in front of a man dressed for a role. The uniform reads first. Then our eyes go to his face.From stop 17, Valdemar Hjartvar Købke, Christen Købke
Open the quest at The Great Hall, or on the couch. Press play.
At each work, see it, hear it, and read it. One idea per stop.
Finish with a recap of nineteen works on the making of you.
Ahalane draws on research into presence, attention, metaphor and self-transcendence, and maps your interests across 80,000 artifacts and 5,000 years at The Met.
Start The Making of You today, in the galleries or from your own front door.